Opening Wednesday, May 14th, from 6:30PM - 8PM

Join us as Jason Reblando, our March artist in residence, returns to LATITUDE to talk about his project New Deal Utopias! Reblando will give an artist’s talk and engage in a public conversation on utopias, power structures, and planned communities. New Deal Utopias is on view at the City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower at 806 North Michigan Avenue through the final weekend in September. As always, this talk is free, open to the public, and BYO.

Jason Reblando (b. 1973, Flushing, NY) is an artist and photographer based in Chicago and Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. He received his MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, and a BA in Sociology from Boston College. After college, he worked as a community organizer in southern Oregon in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He is a recipient of a Follett Fellowship from Columbia College Chicago, a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council. He has produced radio stories for Eight Forty-Eight on Chicago Public Radio, and has been commissioned to create multimedia stories for various clients. His photographs are part of the collections in the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Midwest Photographers Project of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He teaches photography at Illinois State University.